Recent content by 7waysunday

I'm looking for a portable freeware app that can create ISO images from files on my filesystem, not from an existing cd or dvd. I downloaded the portable InfraRecorder but it doesn't seem to be able to do this. Keeps giving me an error "You have no [sic] added any files to the current project...

Just wanted to thank everyone who took the time to offer their advice. I received all the new parts for the machine migration yesterday and will be building it this weekend when I have a good bit of free time. FYI, I ended up going with the PowerColor 6850 1GB 256bit for video (I figure a...

LOL, this gets more and more difficult! :D I spent part of the morning hunting down deals on the 460 SEs based on cusideabelincoln's recommendations, checked some chipsets performance comparisons online, etc etc, and was just about settled on this non-SE 460: SPARKLE SXX4601024D5UNM GeForce GTX...

Hehehe that is actually one of the articles I had already read prior to my original post. While it does show substantial benefits in apps like Premiere CS5, Photoshop CS5 is not coded to take advantage of CUDA. However, some 3rd party plugins "may" be coded to take advantage of CUDA. I spent...

Ok... this is actually a partial upgrade on an existing system which was not designed to be strictly a "gaming" machine even though some of the work being done on it closely resembles game environments... it's used primarily as a dev workstation with some prototyping in "game-ish"...

Yeah I'm actually starting to like that 6850 that I edited in after I made the last post.. It's slightly higher in cost, but it's a 6850... 256 bit.. and 960 Stream Processors / Shaders... and lasting longer before another upgrade helps me justify the higher cost.. has good reviews on newegg and...

Thanks for the replies so far, they're much appreciated and are getting me thinking not so much by-the-numbers, though I am still confused by how to gauge performance trade-off when it comes to the # of stream processors vs the bit-bus if the chipset were the same, for example. On another...

Hello all.. I'm in the process of putting together specs for a new machine. I don't need anything cutting edge as far as games are concerned, so the two cards I'm considering are in no way "recent" :D. I mainly do photoshop work, some blender and 3DS MAX, and also work in the openSIM simulator...